Okay, I guess I better go ahead and give this a number, finally. The reason I’ve avoided this is that Marco Polo and Wedding Imperial were in my very first “posh” tea buy, the purchase that put me on the road (not very long ago!) to trying more and more teas, and the reason I hardly drink coffee any more. But! I really overdid it with these two, to the point of making myself sort of sick of the taste of them … thus my delayed write-up.
To be honest, I would have waited longer, but I just got one of those fancy new gravity infusers, and had to give a thought about what tea to christen it with. Well, why not the first fancy tea I ever sampled? Marco Polo, then, yes. Unfortunately, I was also a bit hungry, and had eaten some salted almonds just before. Unwise. As a general rule, I’d guess that “don’t salt your mouth before tea tasting” might be a good one. At least it’s a good one for Marco Polo. My first few sips, black with a tiny bit of sweetener, were awful! “Bejabber!” I moaned, “And zooterkins! Truly I have bespoiled this once fair elixir by my own depraved intemperance!”
Luckily, though, those first sips did a good job of rinsing my mouth, and when I added more sweetener and some milk, my old love was back to the lovely, luxurious, creamy strawberry shortcake flavor I remembered. Maybe too much so, since now I’m tempted to have more … and more! But no, I’ve sworn I’ll not ruin any more delights with gross overindulgence. No, really.
/me hums innocently
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Gravity infusers are the best. <3 I just had to deep clean mine yesterday, it was getting pretty rank…
I once tried adding sweetener to a tea that had salted leaves in it. Never. Again. Biggest tea mistake I ever made. So I know those feels…
I love the gravity infuser so far! I’m pretty excited about reorganizing my tea space to mostly use that and get a lot of strainers and infusers and saucers and lids and assorted flotsam and jetsam off the countertop. I swear to keep the salt shaker faaaaar away, though! :P
Gravity infusers are the best. <3 I just had to deep clean mine yesterday, it was getting pretty rank…
I once tried adding sweetener to a tea that had salted leaves in it. Never. Again. Biggest tea mistake I ever made. So I know those feels…
I love the gravity infuser so far! I’m pretty excited about reorganizing my tea space to mostly use that and get a lot of strainers and infusers and saucers and lids and assorted flotsam and jetsam off the countertop. I swear to keep the salt shaker faaaaar away, though! :P